Short Take: Excite suffers outage

Web portal Excite suffered an outage Monday that lasted for at least 20 minutes, a spokeswoman for the site confirmed. The outage was the result of problems encountered in the hardware and software the company uses to share traffic load across many servers, the spokeswoman said. While Netizens were able to access the home page, services within the page were not accessible.

Web portal Excite suffered an outage
Monday that lasted for at least 20 minutes, a spokeswoman for the site
confirmed. The outage was the result of problems encountered in the
hardware and software the company uses to share traffic load across many
servers, the spokeswoman said. While Netizens were able to access the home
page, services within the page were not accessible.